SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

We are delighted to share with you the Replaying Communism Symposium Programme! If you would like to attend this online event, please get in touch via our Contact Page or by emailing replayingcommunism@gmail.com

Replaying Communism Online Symposium

1 December 2023

Please note that all times refer to GMT (UK)

9.00-9.15                     Welcome and opening remarks from Anna Váradi & Lucy Jeffery

9.15-10.15                   First Panel: Museums. Chaired by Liz Barnes

9.15-9.35 Judit Holp

Memento Park Budapest: the final location of controversial monuments from the Communist era in Hungary

9.35-9.55 Samantha Vaughn

Warsaw’s Museal Landscape: Media, Authenticity, and Messaging Communist Histories

9.55-10.15 Questions and discussion

10.15-10.20                 Comfort break (5 minutes)

10.20-11.20                 Second Panel: Media. Chaired by Lucy Jeffery

10.20-10.40 Jakub Gortat 

'Zersetzung' as a source of individual and collective trauma. Dealing with the German communist past in Das schweigende Klassenzimmer (2018) and Nahschuss (2021)

10.40-11.00 Giuseppe Mattia

Five Candles in Ceaușescu’s Dark Ages. Humour vs Communism in Tales from the Golden Age (2009) by Cristian Mungiu 

11.00-11.20 Fanni Antalóczy
Self-colonising Tendencies of Representing Communism in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema

11.20-11.40 Sylwia Szostak

Netflix Originals in Poland and Imagined Socialism – Local signifier for global audiences

11.40-12.10 Questions and discussion

12.10-1.10                   Lunch

1.10-2.10                     Third Panel: Rhetoric. Chaired by Fanni Antalóczy

1.10-1.30 Valentina Pricopie & Cristina Damboeanu 

'Davai ceas, davai palton.' Episodic Media Frames of the Soviet Occupation of Romania

1.30-1.50 Anna Szilágyi

Playing it again in post-communism: The revolutionary rhetoric of Viktor Orbán in Hungary

1.50-2.10 Questions and discussion

2.10-2.15                     Comfort break (5 minutes)

2.15-3.30                     Keynote: Anikó Imre 'Communism as Global Storytelling'. Chaired by Anna Váradi. 

3.30-4.00                     Reflection and closing remarks

We would like to thank the AHRC awarding body SWWDTP for funding this project and the University of Reading, UK, for supporting the project leads.